Create your portal

To get your portal created, go to this page and request a developer portal. Be sure to give them your enterprise.apigee.com organization name. If you don't know your organization name, sign in to http://enterprise.apigee.com and select your username > User Settings. In the User Settings window, you can see your organization name.

After you request the portal, an Apigee representative will respond with more information. Ultimately, you'll be sent a note with links to your portal, a ready-to-use Drupal instance with the following pages: homepage, Blog, Forum

Configure the connection between the portal and Edge

The portal acts as a client for Apigee Edge. That means the portal does not function as a stand-alone system. Instead, much of the information used by the portal is actually stored on Edge. When necessary, the portal makes an HTTP or HTTPS request to retrieve information from Edge or to send information to Edge.

There are three pieces of information that the portal needs to communicate with Edge:

URL of the Edge endpoint

The default endpoint for the cloud-based version of Edge is https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1.

For Private Cloud installation, the URL is in the form: http://EdgePrivateCloudIp:8080/v1​ or https://EdgePrivateCloudIp:SSLport/v1.

Where EdgePrivateCloudIp is the IP address of the Edge Management Server server and SSLport is the SSL port for the Edge management API. For example, 8443.

Apigee organization name

This is the name of your organization on Edge. You set up the organization when you create your account on Edge.

Username and password of an organization administrator

The calls from the portal to Edge are authenticated and must be performed by an administrator for your organization.

This username/password is for an administrator on your organization and should be used only for connecting to Edge from the portal. For example, if you specify the credentials of a user, and that user is ever deleted on Edge, then the portal will no longer be able to connect to Edge. Therefore, create an administrator on your organization just for this connection.

How you change the configuration depends on your portal installation and portal version:

Cloud-based installation of portal version 15.01.06 and later: You must make a request to Apigee Support to change the connection information. For example, if you want to change the name of the organization.

On-premises installation and cloud-based portal previous to version 15.01.06: Change the connection information as described below:

Create admin users

If you want to add more administrators to your portal:

In the Drupal administration menu, select People > Add User.

Enter the required information about the new user, and provide a temporary password.

Be sure to select Active and administrator. To have an automatic email sent to the user with a link to the new portal, select Notify user of new account.
When a new administrator logs in, he or she will have the same administrator rights as you.

Configure an SMTP server

The developer portal requires that you configure an SMTP server to send email messages. To configure the SMTP server, you must first enable the Drupal SMTP Authentication Support module on the developer portal.

Configure your portal

Drupal runs almost entirely on modules—self-contained code plug-ins to the Drupal framework. Anything you do or configure in Drupal is controlled by a module, from menu control, to layout configuration, to reports. To see a list of modules that are installed in your portal, select Modules in the Drupal menu.

Create API products

Send developers to your portal

When your portal is ready for public consumption, start sending developers to it. When they register, they're added as simply "authenticated users" (not Drupal administrators), and their user information is automatically added to Drupal—and to your enterprise.apigee.com environment, where they are registered as "developers". When developers register apps in your developer portal, where they select API products to use in their apps, those apps are also registered on your enterprise.apigee.com site. Your developer portal and enterprise site are connected.